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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bermondsey 1955
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1955
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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1955.
| NOTIFIABLE DISEASE | NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED | Saints | Neckinger | Central | Tunnel | Dockyard | Park | Raymouth | South | Thorburn | Willow Walk | South West | Abbey | Leather Market | Total | Total Cases removed to Hospital | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages | At Ages—Year | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0 to 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 & upwards | |||||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 7 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 113 | – | 26 | 80 | 6 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 35 | 113 | 1 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 29 | – | 14 | 7 | 3 | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | – | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 29 | 3 |
| Acute Polio-Myelitis and Acute Polio-Encephalitis | 14 | – | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | 3 | – | 1 | 14 | 11 |
| Paratyphoid Fevers | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | 12 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | – | 1 | 1 | 12 | – |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Pneumonia (Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal) | 23 | 1 | 2 | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | – | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 3 |
| Whooping Cough | 51 | 7 | 28 | 15 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 3 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | – | 1 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 51 | 3 |
| Measles | 1271 | 57 | 739 | 461 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 109 | 93 | 66 | 164 | 115 | 51 | 74 | 64 | 80 | 100 | 91 | 143 | 121 | 1271 | 20 |
| Scabies | 4 | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | — | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 4 | – |
| Tuberculosis— | I | „' | O { | J | J | ■ | J | I J | _ | J | |||||||||||||||||
| Respiratory System | 54 | – | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | – | 2 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 54 | – |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 6 | – | – | 2 | 1 | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 6 | – |
| Totals | 1588 | 66 | 818 | 577 | 23 | 14 | 20 | 22 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 12 | 128 | 113 | 87 | 200 | 137 | 72 | 87 | 77 | 87 | 118 | 130 | 176 | 176 | 1588 | 45 |